AlertSite Check Your Knowledge Part II

Track 5: Performance Monitoring, AlertSite

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* 1. Please tell us your name and email address

Name

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* 2. Which delivery formats are available from the AlertSite reporting engine.

HTML Email

Paper reports delivered via FEDEX

PDF

CSV

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* 3. Is the reporting engine the only way to view monitor run details?

Yes

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* 4. What are some reasons you may see errors on the dashboard but we never got an alert?

The monitor has alerting tuned off

The monitor is an a blackout window turning notifications off

The location was a that generated the alert was a tier III node - Wireless

Your notifer is not in the recipient group containing the monitor

The notifier has exceeded the number of alerts consecutive alerts

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* 5. What is the best report to identify an outages duration?

Detail report

Daily Summary Report

Outage Report

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* 6. What are some ways of 'cutting data' from the reporting results to account for a maintenance window?

Create a retroactive blackout window and run the SLA reports

Use data filters and Custom Exclusions

Manually unselect each run

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* 7. Is there a limit to the number of scheduled reports or report recipients that can be created?

Yes

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* 8. Where can the scheduled report recipient(s) be changed?

Your out of luck create a new report

Document Manager

In the AlertSite Preferences

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* 9. In the quick panel which icon shows the request, payload returned and failed assertions?

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* 10. What API formats are supported by the AlertSite REST APIs? Select All that Apply

Excel

JSON

Text

HTML

XML

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* 11. What types of result data can be consumed via he AlertSite REST APIs?

Monitor data

Step data

Object data

All of the above

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* 12. Can I control monitor configuration through the AlertSite REST APIs?

Yes

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* 13. How can you change the admin to someone else?

Have a co-admin promote themseleves

Have the current admin change the admin credentials to match the new user

Call AlertSite customer support

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* 14. Which user roles can edit monitors? Select All that Apply

Report Only

Read Only

Power User

Co-Admin

Admin

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* 15. Which user roles can edit user and account attributes? Select All that Apply

Report Only

Read Only

Power User

Co-Admin

Admin

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* 16. Which user roles can navigate to subaccounts? Select All that Apply

Report Only

Read Only

Power User

Co-Admin

Admin

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* 17. What are some bad scripting practices that will impact your ability to successfully monitor a web application? Select all that apply

One script to rule them all. A single script that covers unrelated user journeys

Never clear your cache pre- and post script creation

Always add wait time throughout the script

Cut and paste inputs instead of typing one character at a time

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* 18. Which of the following AlertSite capabilities can prevent false alarms and false positives? Select All that Apply

Utilizing local and remote retries

Incorporating validations or assertions on all key transaction steps

Disabling alerting

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* 19. Do all alert recipients receive the same alerts in the event of a monitor failure?

Yes

No, depending on the configuration of both Alert Recipients and Recipient Groups, AlertSite allows you to target recipients with the right alert messages.

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* 20. Are keywords the only validation option for DejaClick web monitors?

Yes

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* 21. Why use AlertSite PrivateNodes?

To monitor applications that are not accessible from public locations

To assess the health and performance of critical external-facing applications

To monitor the health of your home WiFi network